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There is a good chance you shouldn't listen to me.

[ry @unclefarting]

marketplace grail i found today

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@beastmodelary @JaspernDumpling Google web plot digitizer, upload cat photo to it, get mouf math.

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@beastmodelary @JaspernDumpling Screen shot, crop down to manageable pixels, upload to web plot digitizer and use known pixels to calibrate x/y axis and trace lip to get data in terms of units = pixels.

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@JaspernDumpling Upper lip can be approximated by: 2.8 +1.9x -0.115x^2 + 4.27E-03x^3 -5.87E-05x^4 + 3.39E-07x^5 -6.99E-10x^6 with an R^2 value of 0.997.

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@wildstwawberry @MightyLinguine It's real.

[Sam Schwartzstein @schwartzsteins]

Midseason! Bringing back a favorite stat:
SCRACK EPA (Scramble EPA + Sack EPA).

Identifying how much a QB helps or hurts his team on called pass plays when he doesn't throw the ball.

Josh Allen still the king, but Bo Nix moving his way up!

Data from @NextGenStats

[christina 死神 @chhopsky]

stay tuned to this thread

WASD movement in league of legends breaks the assumptions of so much code in the game i still find it difficult to believe they went through with it

there’s gonna be some bangers

[Justis Mosqueda @JuMosq]

NFL ANY/A Value

Vikings sinking like a rock

[Nate Tice @Nate_Tice]

Jakobi Meyers for Trevor Lawrence

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

🏈 Ready to call the plays? In Football for Windows, created by an ex-college player, you step in as coach & run the game your way. It was once free to copy & play (with a $25 registration to unlock everything) — and now you can play it instantly in-browser at the @InternetArchive ➡️ https://t.co/7iwHGQugWE

#shareware #retrogaming

[Alfie @AlfieBCC]

Because you watch every Jaguars game in full with vested interest, so you don’t notice it in other games.

[Alphabet Soup 👑 @Alph4betSoup]

"I quickly realized though that if you go to

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

... and make an entry that makes the Microsoft Copilot AI domain resolve to localhost, Copilot implodes and drops dead. It can no longer access any API endpoints hence it cannot exist"

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨 IMPORTANT: If you're a Gmail user and DON'T WANT your data being used to train AI, here's how you turn off the "smart feature" settings:

1. Turning OFF "smart feature" settings for Gmail, Chat & Meet:

- On your computer, go to Gmail.
- At the top right, click Settings
- See all settings.
- In the “General” tab, scroll to “Smart features.”
- Next to “Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet,” make sure the box is UNCHECKED

2. Turning OFF smart feature settings for Google Workspace and other Google products:

- On your computer, go to Gmail.
- At the top right, click Settings
- See all settings.
- Under the “General” tab, scroll to “Google Workspace smart features.”
- Click "Manage Workspace smart feature settings.
- Turn both the smart feature settings OFF (the one for Google Workspace and the one for other Google products).

*According to Google, by default, the smart feature settings will be off if you live in:
- The European Economic Area
- Japan
- Switzerland
- UK

[Hint: AI and data protection regulation work]

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My comments:

In the past three years, we have seen tech companies launch an avalanche of new generative AI features.

Although these features are effectively generative AI and LLM-powered, they don't always bear "AI" in their "official" name.

Google's smart features are an example. They are AI-powered and will generate synthetic suggestions, but Google strategically (to reduce scrutiny) does not use the term 'AI' explicitly when referring to them, and also avoids it in the Help Center and Privacy Policy when covering these new features.

Very often, when you interact with these new features (which I have criticized in the past as disempowering... "Help me write" or "Summarize for me"), the data you input will be used to train AI and improve the AI-powered feature.

Deactivating these "smart features" is a way to avoid that.

What is tricky is that these changes in settings (which are often "ON" by default in some regions) are NOT widely announced by tech companies, and it's extremely UNFAIR to expect people to navigate these complicated settings on a daily basis to look for new traps.

I wish AI enforcement and regulatory oversight were more prevalent so tech companies would be more protective of their users, AT LEAST for being afraid of getting fined... I only wish...

👉 Most people haven't heard of these settings or how they work (and have them "ON"). Share this information with them.

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@wachelreeks Best art: Astelli Reclaimer
Best flavor text: a goblin named Speedbump in Afterburner Expert.

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@mtg_ds Is reminder text considered rules text? Because "the land continue to burn" is an all timer from Obsidian Fireheart.

[alex turntine @turntineforwhat]

I work in a program for autistic students at a predominantly Black elementary school. here's our wishlist! our related service providers (speech, social work, occupational therapy) are really struggling with supplies because they don't receive a budget 😕https://t.co/AQcZsOMbjp

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@mtg_ds Golgari is a little tricky in terms of iconic evergreenish cards for an archetype at 2 mana but I think Skull Prophet is they one that you'd put in more cubes, though I'd want to sneak Lotleth Troll in despite regenerate being deprecated.

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@mtg_ds For Azorius I think the they have two very on brand 2 drop creatures in Lavinia, Azorius Renegade and Kwain, Itinerant Meddler. One forces "fair" play and gets to say no, the other couples life gain and card draw.

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@mtg_ds Similarly to Boros, I think the candidate for Rakdos might be better served in spell form or going up to 3 drop sticking to creature (Mayhem Devil). But to be the strictest interpretation of the prompt I think I'd go with Slaughter-Priest of Mogis.

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@mtg_ds For Orzhov I think it is fair to pick your favorite flavor of Aristocrat engine, but I'll choose one of the ones that specifies sacrifices to trigger instead of just tracking enters/death triggers in Fleshtaker. The striking art helps too.